One month after a short-lived armed insurrection directly challenged Vladimir Putin’s rule, the man who orchestrated it all is still roaming free.
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenary group, meanwhile, has set up a base in Belarus less than 500 miles from Moscow. And according to Belarusian strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka, they are making noises about attacking Poland.
Like Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine 17 months ago, the Wagner rebellion and its aftermath appears to be a paradigm-shifting event that has upended many of our assumptions about politics in Russia and in its environs.
So how should we understand this new reality? On The Power Vertical Podcast this week, host Brian Whitmore speaks with Russian opposition leader Vladimir Milov to break it all down. Enjoy…
SHOW NOTES
You can access Vladimir Milov’s YouTube channel (in Russian) here. Vladimir Milov’s January 2023 article in Foreign Affairs, “The Sanctions Against Russia Are Working,”: can be accessed here.
A profile of Vladimir Milov in The Daily Beast can be accessed here.
Brian Whitmore’s September 2022 article for Foreign Policy, “A Ukrainian Victory Would Liberate Eastern Europe,” which was referenced in the podcast, can be accessed here.